Activision CEO Bobby Kotick confirms DJ Hero Game With Physical Turntables

Authored by Jay Baage on January 30, 2009 - 11:07am.

Davos, Switzerland - Activision Blizzard (NASD: ATVI) CEO Bobby Kotick confirmed on Friday that a new music-centered video game called "DJ Hero" is in development and due out in 2009:
"We have this product called DJ Hero coming out later this year, which is a turntable that you actually can play competitively and spin discs and mix songs," he said during a CNBC interview.

There had been rumors about DJ Hero based on a trademark filing and speculation that B-Boy developer Freestyle Games had been bought out by Activision to work on it, according to Eurogamer.

Activision Blizzard own the Guitar Hero franchise which has had over $1 billion in sales since it was introduced in 2005 and paved the way for a new, hugely successful genre in gaming, with the addition of the physical experience of playing along with the music on an electronic instrument-like controller.